• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    39·
    5 months ago

    It’s true. There’s a woman who runs a guinea pig rental service for people one of whose guinea pigs died who don’t want to adopt a new one for life.

    • xpinchx@lemmy.world
      20·
      5 months ago

      Thanks that answers the burning question this title left in my head. Unless they take a cue from The Notebook one will always be alone.

      Also an ex gf from years ago had a single guinea pig that stopped eating and died, that makes sense now :(

  • Thorny_Insight
    27·
    5 months ago

    As a gerbil owner this is a constant dilemma for me aswell. One tends to always die much sooner than the another and it breaks my heart seeing the other be left alone. If I then get another one then the same thing is just going to happen again due to their age difference and if I get two there’s like 50% chance they don’t get along and now I have two terrariums with one gerbil in one and two in the another.

    If anyone else is considering getting gerbils my advice would be to either get 3 males or go with a hamster instead since they live alone. I currently have 3 females but I almost had to separate them earlier due to fighting. This is less likely to happen with males.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    5 months ago

    We adopted our hound after finding out that our staffy really liked having another dog in the house. She has a therapy dog / sibling.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 months ago

    I’m interested in how this works in terms of pairing.

    I have a lone guinea pig. I had two rescue pigs that were rescued from a bad situation, and one sadly died after 6 months. We’ve had two separate partners, but despite a lot of work in trying to partner them up he’s never been able to not fight a potential cage partner.

    I want him to have a partner, but the stress for both of being constantly in fight or flight is concerning. We even considered rehoming at a rescue centre and giving a huge donation, but it would just pass the problem on.